Elizabeth Threadgill

Assoc. Prof. of Eng.| Poems in/soon @CrazyhorseLitJo @PoetLoreMag @theoffingmag @radarpoetry @FugueJournal @DIALOGIST | Chap TANGLED IN THE LIGHT | From Marfa

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

I'm over the moon to begin teaching an honors seminar on Women Poets & The Cosmos this coming week featuring @yonaharvey, @RosebudBenOni, @elizabethlinds, @marthasilano, & Tracy K. Smith + @IBJIYONGI & more!

[PEN America United @united_PEN]

Rally with PEN America United for a fair contract now!!

This Wednesday, April 17th at 12 pm - wear red and join us outside the PEN America Head Quarters at 588 Broadway New York, NY 10012 !!!

Share widely!! We'll see you there!!!

[Kundiman @kundimanforever]

Read the open letter from co-organizers of the 2023 Asian American Literature Festival. We join our community partners in condemning the cancellation of this year’s festival & calling on the @smithsonian to be accountable for the harms they’ve caused
https://t.co/meqlsoAFbu

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

I have my copy of this needed anthology containing an essay by my dear friend @shankcruz. Order your copy today!

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

ISO recommendations for poetry collections (e.g. Twice Alive by Forrest Gander) & poems (e.g. "The Forest" by Susan Stewart) that pay particular attention to the forest floor/mushrooms/lichen/etc.

[Cynthia Marie Hoffman @CynthiaMHoffman]

The new issue of @poetrynw is out with my prose poem Angel Number Seven, an #OCD and #depression origin story of sorts.

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

Today at 1 PM EST!

Register here: https://t.co/IkwpZBgQXY

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

Join the ⁦@TheBrooklynRail⁩ for a conversation between Fredericka Hunter (past president/board member of the Chinati Foundation in Marfa; now managing partner of Texas Gallery in Houston) & critic/art historian Phyllis Tuchman. I’ll close w/ poetry! https://t.co/Znzxv0MOgF

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

Join the ⁦@TheBrooklynRail⁩ for a conversation between Fredericka Hunter (past president/board member of the Chinati Foundation in Marfa; now managing partner of Texas Gallery in Houston) & critic/art historian Phyllis Tuchman. I’ll close w/ poetry! https://t.co/Znzxv0MOgF

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

"I held a rosary in one hand
and lantern in the other

walking into the circle of boys,
with whom

I learned to speak to ghosts
of the wanderers."

- "Incantation II" by @Hussyainy in @memoriousmag

https://t.co/eK1lZLl6Am

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

"So, what more can we expect but the world to make music on our bones? When I hit the ground, I felt every note."

From "Xylophone" by @JesseLKercheval in @VCUBlackbird.

https://t.co/f2NG26gJMP

[Jesse Lee Kercheval @JesseLKercheval]

Two prose poems by me in the great new Blackbird! https://t.co/tx32ZmlIXm

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

"Once I opened my mouth to finally scream, I couldn’t close it. I’d had enough. I pulled all the stars out of the sky. A door inside me opened and accessed all the parts of me that had stayed quiet and numb. My mouth, a black hole of anger and pain."
https://t.co/xnnX4V5kC4

[Suzanne Richardson 🦾🦀🫀🖤 @oozannesay]

My memoir excerpt, "Safety Plan" is up at @rejectionlit today. Many thanks to @felishonaleash who helped me through critical edits on this work. Without her eye, this wouldn't have been possible.
CW: suicide, domestic violence, addiction
https://t.co/1iWQywNIFX

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

"as familiar as the dog's nails, pulled down along the fence. there is no waking apart from end. dutifully knowing and still having gone."

- from "Tributaries Without Sound" in @fuguejournal by Sara Lupita Olivares

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

long before my father was my father
my mother was a lake
everything that existed was water
we are floating things
who drink our mothers

...

With appreciation to those who mother & to @swamp_pink for publishing this poem this past Fall. https://t.co/0LyvEU3p5L

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

Love this final reflection from a student in Women Poets & the Cosmos: "I've realized that's what this whole course has been about--the vast, unexplored inner parts of our identities and how they relate to the similarly vast, unexplored universe around us."

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

I'm over the moon to begin teaching an honors seminar on Women Poets & The Cosmos this coming week featuring @yonaharvey, @RosebudBenOni, @elizabethlinds, @marthasilano, & Tracy K. Smith + @IBJIYONGI & more!

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

We ended Women Poets & the Cosmos w/ an exercise in absurdity inspired by EEAAO. "Rebellion...is a fabricator of universes...To create beauty, [we] must simultaneously reject reality & exalt certain of its aspects. Art disputes reality, but does not hide from it." - Albert Camus

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

"We have language for what is within reach
but not the mutable form behind it.

Or else, why write."

- from "Inwardly" by Jenny Xie

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

The lightest realizations arrive in restraint—
so the old masters tell us.

—Jenny Xie

https://t.co/oLo7hjvJTE

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

Rabbit portal.

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

Raindrops caught in a spiderweb.

[Elizabeth Threadgill @EJThread]

"We collaborated on thirst. We drank the desert to be together."

[Suzanne Richardson 🦾🦀🫀🖤 @oozannesay]

I have a new lyric essay up @ANMLY_LIT that investigates my broken heart. https://t.co/fckROjFDnu